The Irish novelist Colm Tóibín gives an intimate account of writing his most autobiographical novel, Nora Webster, to the Guardian book club at a live event recorded in London. Speaking to chair John Mullan, Tóibín explains why he set the novel in his childhood home, Enniscorthy in County Wexford and how drafting the first chapter of Nora Webster lead to his writing the novel Brooklyn, now an acclaimed Hollywood film.